Nadine Marsh-Edwards

Nadine Marsh-Edwards (born 1960[1] or 1963[2]) is an English film producer. She has been described as "a pivotal force in developing a black British cinema".[1]

Life

Marsh-Edwards graduated from Goldsmiths College before cofounding the Sankofa Film and Video Collective with Isaac Julien, Maureen Blackwood, Martina Attille and Robert Crusz in 1983.[3] She produced films made by several others in the collective before moving to a more commercial success with Gurinder Chadha's 1994 film Bhaji on the Beach.

In 2010 Marsh-Edwards founded the production company Greenacre Films with Amanda Jenks. It became a division of Wall to Wall Media in 2012. In 2015 Ealing Studios acquired a stake.[4] The company produced the 2018 Netflix original film Been So Long. In 2019 they announced a first-look TV deal with Banijay.[5] They also announced work on TV adaptations of two novels by Indian writer Thrity Umrigar, The Space Between Us and its sequel The Secrets Between Us, as well as work with screenwriter Misan Sagay on Battersea Rise, an aspirational period thriller series focusing on a Victorian-era black family.[6] In 2020 they were announced as producers of Unsaid Stories, a four-part series of short dramas examining racial inequality for ITV. In 2021 Greenacre entered into a partnership to help produce a biopic by Frances-Anne Solomon about the life of Claudia Jones.[7] In 2021 a collaboration was announced between Greenacre Films and Akala, for a BBC3 documentary based on Akala's book Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire.[8]

In 2018 Marsh-Edwards accused the London nightclub Drama of charging black women twice as much as white women, tweeting "They need to be reminded that it's London 2018 not Mississippi 1962".[9] Her allegations prmpted other accusation of racism at the nightclub, and were investigated by Westminster Council.[10] ITV also commissioned Greenacre to produce a six-part drama, Riches, written by Abby Ajayi.[11]

Filmography
  • (as director) A Women's Place, 1983.
  • (as assistant editor) Majdhar, dir. by Ahmed Alauddin Jamal, 1984.
  • (as editor) Territories, dir. by Isaac Julien, 1986.
  • (as production manager and editor)The Passion of Remembrance, dir. by Isaac Julien, 1986.
  • (as producer) Perfect Image?, dir. by Maureen Blackwood, 1988
  • (as production manager) Dreaming Rivers, dir by Martina Attille, 1988
  • (as producer and casting) Looking for Langston, dir. by Isaac Julien, 1989
  • (as producer) A Nice Arrangement, dir. by Gurinder Chadha, 1991
  • (as producer) Young Soul Rebels, dir. by Isaac Julien, 1992
  • (as producer) A Family Called Abrew, dir. by Maureen Blackwood, 1992
  • (as executive producer) Flight of the Swan, dir. by Ngozi Onwurah, 1992
  • (as executive producer) Home away from Home, dir. by Maureen Blackwood, 1993
  • (as producer) The Posse – Armed and Dangerous, dir. by Liddy Oldroyd, 1993
  • (as producer) Bhaji on the Beach, dir. by Gurinder Chadha, 1994.
  • (as executive producer) Fathers, Sons, and Unholy Ghosts, dir. by Danny Thompson, 1994
  • (as a partner in Xencat Productions) Jump the Gun, dir. by Les Blair, 1997.
  • (as executive producer) Lucky Day, dir. by Brian Tilley, 1999
  • (As executive producer) Husk, dir. by Jeremy Handler, 1999
  • (as executive producer) Portrait of a Young Man Drowning, dir. by Teboho Mahlatsi, 1999.
  • (as co-producer) Hijack Stories, dir. by Oliver Schmitz, 2000
  • (as executive producer) Nasty Neighbours, dir. by Debbie Isett, 2001
  • (as development executive) An Englishman in New York, dir. by Richard Laxton, 2009
  • (as producer) Been So Long, dir. by Tinge Krishnan, 2018.

References
  1. Chohan, Satinder (2002). "Marsh-Edwards, Nadine". In Alison Donnell (ed.). Companion to Contemporary Black British Culture. Routledge. p. 268. ISBN 978-1-134-70025-7.
  2. Nadine Marsh-Edwards at the British Film Institute
  3. "Spotlight: Sankofa Film & Video Collective". Invisible Women. 13 January 2021. Retrieved 4 February 2022.
  4. Michael Rosser (21 May 2015). "Ealing Studios acquires 'GreenAcre Films' stake". Screen Daily. Retrieved 4 February 2022.
  5. Stewart Clarke (5 March 2019). "'Been So Long' Producer Greenacre Films Strikes First-Look TV Deal With Banijay". Variety. Retrieved 4 February 2022.
  6. Peter White (30 April 2019). "British Drama Beat: 'Been So Long' Producer Greenacre Films Beefs Up TV Slate With Mumbai-Set Literary Adaptation & Misan Sagay Project". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved 4 February 2022.
  7. Nana Akua Frimpomaa Amofa (25 February 2021). "Claudia Jones to be honoured in biopic Claudia". Soca News. Retrieved 4 February 2022.
  8. "BBC3 orders doc based on Akala's Natives". Televisual. 8 June 2021. Retrieved 4 February 2022.
  9. David Brown (12 June 2018). "Celebrity nightclub Drama accused of charging black women double". The Times. Retrieved 4 February 2022.
  10. Nicola Slawson (22 June 2018). "Drama Park Lane: Nightclub Faces Fresh Allegations Of Racism". Huff Post. Retrieved 4 February 2022.
  11. Jon Creamer (15 October 2020). "ITV orders Abby Ajayi family drama from Greenacre". Televisual. Retrieved 4 February 2022.
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